"Cegah sebelum terlambat"
Komen: Cegah apa? Cegah keruntuhan rumahtangga sebab tetek kecik. Kalau itula yang dijadikan alasan, then ladies...you're better off without the man. Please find someone who can love you for who you are and what you look like.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Seriously...this sucks big time. The best thing is, I lost it at Legoland!!

Freaking stupid Legoland. Curse that place! Grrrrr...

OK, so our trip to Legoland was a huge bust. 1st, we only got in after nearly one hour lining up for tickets. Before you roll your eyes and say "why didn't you just buy tickets online?", it was because I wanted to use the "Kids Enter Free" vouchers. Kids tickets cost RM110, so I saved RM330 by using them.

It was freaking hot in the afternoon and mid-day, which was kind of expected. But then it started to rain around 3pm. And rained. And rained. Complete with thunder and lightning. Since there was lightning involved, all the rides stopped and everybody huddled indoors for hot coffee.

RM7.50 for a cup of hot coffee!! Shhheeeettt!!!

It was during one of my many trips to the toilet that I left it there. Huuhuhuhu...I can still see it in my mind, balanced on the tissue dispenser.

The worst part is that I lost all my photos that I took at Legoland. All my photos with Rachel Allen (yes, I met her! And she taught me how to cook!!). All my photos with Sarimah. Huhuhuhu...and also my photos taken during the Run For Your Lungs event.

So now I'm using this cokia HP phone that doesn't even have Whatsapp installed. En Rashid bought a new Samsung Galaxy S3, which he plans to let me use. So I guess I'm going android.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Last Sunday, hubby and I entered the Run For Your Lungs event at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa. This is an annual event held by the various associations to bring awareness about tuberculosis (TB) and its dangers. I was rather skeptic when En Rashid told me about the event. Truth be told, I HATE running, I've never been much of a runner, even when I was younger. But since he had already done the deed and paid the fees, I decided to just join and try to have fun. Plus, a few of our office mates were also joining the event, so at least I could run (or walk fast) with other people.

The event was to start at 730am, so the night before, we headed to my mom's house. Being without a maid, we had to think of where to drop off the kids before going. My mom was more than happy to take them. Hehehehe.

We headed out from my mom's house on Sunday at around 6.30am. We had no idea where the starting point was, so we just park at the nearest parking spot and starting walking about. We met up with a few more participants who were also looking for the starting point, so together we scouted the area. Seriously, they could have put up more signboards to alert the participants, especially newcomers like En Rashid and myself. Fortunately one of the people we met up with got hold of one of the organizers, who told us where to go.

It was mostly all photo taking sessions while waiting for the event to start. There were 7 categories altogether, A - Men's Open, C- Women's Open, B - Men's Veteran, D- Women's Veteran,E- Men's Teenagers, F- Women's Teenagers and G- Family/fun Run. We, of course, entered the G category. Heee. For categories A-D, it was a 7km run, while E and F had to run 5km. Category G only had to run 3km.

Around 750am, the blast went off for category G. And I started running.

And continued to run.

And kept on running.

Seriously, I went much further than I expected during my first round of running. It was only when I had trouble breathing, did I stop but continued by power walking instead. After a bit, I continued running again. Then power walked.

Then all of a sudden, I was back to the starting line so I decided to make a final sprint.

And it felt good. My muscles were screaming out and I was having trouble catching my breath, plus let's not talk about the buckets of sweat that was pouring out of my pores....but I felt really good!

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Man, it's been ages since I've been here. To tell you the truth, I miss blogging. And you know what...I'm gonna take it up again. So many things have happened that I'm literally kicking myself for not taking time to jot them down.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The information below was taken from Maybank2u and Jabatan Audit Negara website. Just hoping that someone sees this alert and does the right thing in returning this child to his family.

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Sathiskumar A/L Tamilvanan has been reported missing and we
need you to contact the authorities if you have any information about this child
and/or his whereabouts.More details:Name: Sathiskumar A/L Tamilvanan Age: 5
years oldSex: Male
Height: About 70cm
Weight: 15kg
Last seen wearing: Green shorts, yellow t-shirt, Spiderman cap, shoes and socks.
Last seen at: Jalan Permatang Pauh area, Seberang Jaya, Pulau Pinang.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Argh, it's been ages since I've been here. Sorry guys, been really hectic. I have yet to complete my case study (due end of the month!!) and what with raya coming up, I dunno when I'm gonna get it done. WTH have I been doing for the past 2 months?

Oya, work. Lots of work. Work, work, work, work, work. Huh...

Anyways, boring. I have loads to tell you but will have to wait until after raya.

Just wanted to wish everyone Happy Fasting and Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir Batin. Be safe on the roads and have fun with family and friends.

Monday, July 09, 2012

Last weekend my nephew turned ONE. Oh how time flies. He's such a big handsome boy now. My brother and SIL held the small birthday party at their home, inviting family and friends. Enjoy the pictures.

The candy bar!! Seriously, the cause of my kids' hyperness for the rest of the weekend.

Hotlips!!

Who's moustache is this?

Glamer gal!!

More food!! Tons of jelly, which again my kids loved.

We got lamb!! And lots of mint sauce...I like!!

The birthday boy with his Paklang and friends. Born to be famous!!

The birthday cake, made by Aida. I asked my SIL if there was any theme, she just said anything blue. So I had a baby boy in blue sitting on a football, since my bro is a football fanatic. Sib baik tak dengki soh letak flag Liverpool or Arsenal. Hehehee.

Friday, June 29, 2012

So here we are on Day 4. God this write up is taking forever!! I'll try to make this quick, with lots of pictures.

So Day 4 is the day we went to see the Sumo match. The match was in Tokyo, which gave us an excellant excuse to ride the Shinkansen, which means bullet train in Japanese.

The fastest Shinkensan is the Nozomi, which links Osaka and Tokyo while going through other cities as well. From Osaka, we needed to go to Shin-Osaka station and buy the tickets from there. It was a bit confusing at first coz I had thought that the ride would be a direct trip with no transits. In the end, it didn't matter because the train only stopped at the various stations on the way to Tokyo for like 2 minutes each.

How much did the Nozomi tickets cost? Hahahahhahaa....seriously, you wanna know. All in all, 2 way tickets from Osaka - Tokyo for 2 adults came up to about 52,000 yen. Which is about RM2,000!! Hahahhaha, En Rashid almost got a heart attack when he saw the amount but he can't say I didn't warn him. I had told him earlier (like when we were still back in Malaysia( that the tickets would cost about RM500 per person one way. I guess he didn't hear the "one person one way" part. Hehehehe.

Anyhow, we bought the tickets and then headed up to the platform where the next train was due to depart. We bought the unreserved seats so for half of the way to Tokyo, we didn't get to sit next to each other. Only when people had gotten down to at Nagoya did we get to sit with each other.

This is how the inside of the Nozomi train looks like. The seats were very comfortable (well, if i"m paying RM2000, they'll better be!!) and they could recline much better than the normal plane seats. There were a lot of businessmen on board, I guess most of them transit between their home and work place using the bullet train everyday.

Piece of advice: If you wanna experience the Shinkansen but don't want to pay a bomb, just buy tickets from Osaka to Kyoto. It's much cheaper (dunno how much but should not be more than a few hundred ringgit) and the trip is only 15 minutes.

The trip to Tokyo took us a little bit over 2 hours which was pretty fast seeing how the distance is about 246 miles or 395km. Apparently the train can go up to 270km/hr so it was awesomely fast!!

Nagoya was one of the stations that we stopped at on the way. I kept thinking of my MIL and her obsession with Nagoya silk and cloth. Hehehehe..

En Rashid enjoying the view. Or maybe still thinking about the ticket price. Huhuhuu...

I think this was at Shin-Yokohama station. I dunno what's here but quite a few suits got off so I presume a lot of offices.

Here's the view of the Ryogoku Stadium from across the street. The colorful buntings are actually the names of all the Sumo wrestlers.

At last!! My most wanted photo with the Sumo wrestlers!! These were actually from the Junior league..not the professional league. Those dudes only came out when it was time for them to wrestle.

This is the view we had from our seats. Pretty good actually. We could see eveything. The best part about the match is that you could rent mini radios from the lobby for 100 yen to listen to the English commentators. Made the tournament so much more interesting because the commentator would talk about the wrestlers and their track records and their favorite techniques, so you would get a better appreciation for the sport.

These were the professional wrestlers from the East Coast. Or maybe they were from the West Coast. salah satu la...

Wrestlers from the other coast.

Sometimes, the referee's decision (the dude in golden robes) is not final and may be disputed by the five shimpan (judges) seated around the ring (the dudes in black robes). If this happens they will meet in the center of the ring to hold a mono-ii (lit: a talk about things). After reaching a consensus they can uphold or reverse the referee's decision or order a rematch, known as a torinaoshi.

OK, itu copy paste je dari Wiki..but just to let you know it happened once during the tournament. Both wrestlers fell at the same time and the referee could not decide who won (dia main tunjuk je la side mana2 dulu). Dah habis diskus kat tengah, in the end, the judges decided to have a rematch. Best giller!

Butt action!!!

These were actually advertisement from the various sponsors. Before the last match, I think there were like twenty of them brought into the ring.

The Emperor's Cup. Dapat ambik gambar je pun jadi la.

I can't recall the names of these sumo wrestlers. I think those cut outs are actually size. You can see how comel En Rashid is compared to them. Hahahha...oya, the dude on the right has a hairy butt! Just saying.

The mural outside the stadium. Some dudes from Australia helped take this picture for us. Thanks mates!!

Bye bye Tokyo. We'll come and visit you again next time. For now, it's back on the train to Osaka.